Method and apparatus for waving hair



M. KAYSER.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WAVING HAIR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, I921.

.Patented June 20, 1922.

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T 0 all whom it may concern: v

Be it'known that I, MARY KAYsnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of. -Maryland, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Methods and Apparatus for Waving Hair; and I 'do hereby declare the following to bee full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a method and apparatus for waving hair and it is the primary object of the invention to make provision for contributing to the hair a wave form that will have a. high degree of permanency and in which furthermore, both the apparatus and the process are simple and easily employed, while the apparatus itself is economical of production.

lln the drawings:

Figure 1 is a View showing the improved hair holding frame or hair holder having wound thereon a whisp of hair,-over a part of which is shown both strips of paper employed in the resent method and over a part of which is shown the inner strip only of paper, it being understood that in practicing the process the two layers of paper or two strips cover the entire whisp wound on the holding frame.

Figure 2 is a detail view of the holding frame.

Figure 3 is a view showing the heating iron employed.

Figure 4 is, a view similar to Figure 1, but showing the hair encased in the paper strips and ready for application of the heating iron.

lIn practicing the present process, the hair is first washed and the excess moisture then removed so that the hair is left slightly damp, so that it maybe laid evenly in the subsequent manipulation of it. A whisp of hair is then wound in a tortuous manner over the opposite sides of a frame and is then wetted with warm water. Over. this hair is then spirally Wound a strip of paper, such as manila wrapping paper of medium weight, the paper completely enclosing the hair to be treated and the frame that carries it. A second strip of similar paper that has been dipped in warm water, is then spirally wound about the first strip and the frame with the hair thereon and finally the spirally wound strips of paper with the en- 'rESt PATENT Q MARY KAYSER, 0F BALTIMORE, lMARYLAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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closed hair and frame portions, is gripped between the elongated, fiat faced jaws of heated tongs. The parts are thus held with gentle pressure with the result that the inner str p of paper is heated and takes up the moisture from the hair and holds it until the temperature of the paper and the contalned moisture taken thus from the hair and also from the outer moistened paper str 1p,'is vaporized, when it passes back to the ham and raises the latter to a temperature sufficient to form it with contortions or waves. The vapor or steam generated is of temperature and. passes slowly away, owing to the close wrapping of the paper about the frame and the hair thereon. At the end of the operation the hair is dry and is formed withthe desired degree of perma- Patented June 2th, 19%2. 1 Application filed June 7, 1921. Serial no. 475,888.

are unwrapped and the frame is drawn from the hair.

Referring now to the drawings, the frame employed consists of a'wire that is bent upon ltself to form the spaced-legs 5 and 6 and the co'nnectmg bight portion 7 which latter 1s given a twlst to form the outwardly directed eye 8 at its intermediateportion, the wire being resilient so that while the portions of the bight at the sides of the eye normally contact, they may be sprung apart, and the eye is thus openable to the passage between the legs or sides 5 and 6 for a purpose to be presently explained.

The end portions or the side members 5 and 6 opposite to the bight, are turned toward each other as shown at 9 and 10 respectively, the portion 9 having its terminal; ll turned at right angles, away from the eye 8 and in the plane common to the sides 5 and 6, while the end portion 10 is bent upon itself in the form of a hook 12 in a plane at right angles to the plane of the portions 5, 6. and 9 and is positioned to receive the finger l1.

In the practice of the process, the finger 11 is disengaged from the hook 10 and a whisp of hair is positioned within the enclosure of the frame, after which the frame is drawn with one hand while the hair is held with the other hand, so that the eye 8 is sprung o en to admit the hair whisp thereinto. The frame is then slid along the whisp of hair until the eye 8 is close against the head of the person. With the finger 11 still disengaged from the hook 12, the whisp of hair is woven back and forth over the sides 5 and 6 of the frame in a tortuous7manner, the frame beih of a length to recei-vethe entire whisp, a ter which the finger 1.1 is enga ed with the hook 12.

t Will be understood that as initially explained, the hair is at this time somewhat damp.

After the frame'has been closed with the hair wound on it as described, the hair is wetted with warm water, after which a strip. 13 of dr paper is wound spirally over. the hair an the frame so as to completely enclose the frame, the paper at the ends of the frame being folded closely, to prevent too rapid escape of steam, when the heating tongs are ap lied-as hereinafter described. Over this strip 13 is wound a second pa or strip 14, the last-named strip being rst dipped in warm water. The paper employed is ordinary manila wrappingpaper o crate weight. v

After a plication of the paper strlps, the frame wit the hair and the strips thereon is gripped with moderate pressure between the heated, laterallg extending jaws 15 of a pair of tongs 16? he result, as previously described is that the moisture from the hair is first taken up by the inner strip of paper which takes also moisture from the outer strip and as the temperature of this molsture is raised by the heat from the jaws, it is converted into steam or vapor of hlgh temperature which passes back through the hair, the arrangement of the paper serving to retain the steam about the hairfor a considerable time before it passes out from the enclosure of the paper, to leave the hair/in its final dry state. At the same time, the moistened paper provides yielding surfaces between which thehair is clamped and into which the hair sinks so that it is uniformly treated and heated. In consequence, each individual hair is given the desired form as well as degree of permanency of form so that the return of the hair to its original form and condition is uniform and in conse quence its appearance at all times is that of being well dressed.

What is claimed is: 1. The herein described method of treating hair which consists in arranging it in desired form, enclosing the hair in dr, absorbent material, providin a secon enclosure of moist material, su jecting the arrangement to heat and finally removing the enclosures.

2. The herein described method for treats ing hair which consists in'arranging the hair in the proper form upon a frame, en-

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veloping the hair in dry absorbent material, then ap lying a second envelope of moist materia sub ecting the whole to the action of heated bodies between which it is material, applying ;a second envelope of moist material, subjecting the whole to the held and finally freeing the hair.

4. The herein described method for treating'hair which consists in moistening the. hair, arranging the hair upon a frame in desired form, enveloping the hair with dry absorbent material, applying a second en velope of moist material, subjecting the e to the heat of bodies at a temperature who to vaporize the moisture and between which bodies it is held and finally freeing the hair.

5. The herein described methodfor waviing hair which consists in moistening the hair, winding the hair in a tortuous manner over the spaced sides of the frame, winding a strip of dry paper over the hair on the frame, winding a stripof moist paper over the first-named strip, holding of the described arrangement between the surfaces of bodies heated to a temperature to vaporize the moisture until the moisture has disap peared and finally freeing the hair.

6'. A frame for use in the herein described I sultant hair receiving eye extending away from theside members and openable to the passage between the ends of the side members,.the ends-of the side members remote" from the eye, having integral means for holding the side'members against separation. I

7. A frame for use in the herein described method consisting of a wire bent upon itself with resultant side members and a connecting bight portion, the bight portion being 0 twisted with a resulant eye extending away from the side members, the side members having one a hook and the othera finger at its free end disposed to engage each other and hold said free end portions against movementaway from each other.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses,

.MARY KAYSER. Witnesses R. H. BEoK, C. C. BARNS. 

